Below are just some things I’ve been exploring in the data.

CW intakes over time

First, here are the intakes across species over the period:

CW intakes by species and age

Now, a look of intakes across the time period by species and age:

… and how this has changed over time:

… and here is a plot by species and diagnosis:

Spatial: CW intakes

Here is an interactive map of CW intakes. Circles with numbers in them represent spatially grouped points. Zooming in and or clicking on a circle will show smaller groups and/or individual points. Clicking on a point will show the intake date and species.

Spatial: Intakes over time

One thing I wanted to look at was how the distribution of intakes has changed spatially over time. The gif below shows intakes for every day since the first individual was brought in. The red circle is an intake on a give day. They turn transparent orange and stay on the map after that. There’s a long wait between the first intake (April 11) and subsequent ones (2 days per second and lots of days in between). I was hoping to see an observable pattern with time. I did not.

Spatial: Intakes vs. cicadas

We might expect that, if the event is associated with cicada, the spatial distributions of intakes and cicada might be similar. I took a look at the distribution of intakes at CW versus the distribution of Magicicada spp observations at iNaturalist (within the same area as CW intakes). Cicada observations are subset to those classified as “research-grade”.

It’s pretty interesting. With the exception of the SW corner, they’re not dissimilar (by eye, I’ve not examined statistically). Of course, there’s plenty of reasons why they might spatially correlated other than causation (e.g., maybe folks that submit to iNat are more likely to report to CW).

Here is a look at the change in the number of cicada observations in our area and the number of intakes:

Cicadas across the US

With reports of the event going beyond the spatial range I had expected of the cicadas, I wanted to get a better sense of the cicada range. This interactive map shows the spatial distribution of cicada observations in iNat:

It might be worth seeing how the cicada distribution changes over time and space (e.g., emergence is south-to-north and low-to-high elevation). I’ve not yet done this. If the event and cicadas are linked, we might see a spatiotemporal correlation.